Telephone holder



Get. 141, 1952 ORMS 2,614,177

TELEPHONE HOLDER Filed Sept. 4, 1951 Francis Orm 5 IN VEN TOR.

BY WM fim Patented Oct. 14, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TELEPHUNE HULBER Francis firms, Akron, Ohio Application September 4, 1951, Serial No. 244,928

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements and structural refinements in attachments for telephone instruments, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device of the character herein described, which may be conveniently and effectively employed for supporting the usual receiver-transmitter of the instrument while it is removed from its cradle.

Some of the advantages of the invention reside in its simplicity of construction, in its adaptability for convenient attachment to a telephone instrument, and in its adaptability to economical manufacture.

With the above more important objects and features in view, and such other objects and features as may become apparent as this specification proceeds, the invention consists essentially of the arrangement and construction of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a telephone instrument, partially broken away, and illustrating the invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the invention per se; and,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary rear elevational view of the invention.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts in the specification and throughout the several views.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the general reference character til designates a conventional telephone instrument including a housing I2 provided with the usual sloping back wall 14 and with a horizontally elongated recess 16 which is formed in the back wall under the usual cradle IS in which the receiver-transmitter 2% is normally positioned.

The recess l6, of course, is open at the back thereof, and the invention resides in the prosion of a receiver-transmitter holding attachment which is designated generally by the reference character 22.

For the most part, this attachment is formed integrally from a single blank of material including a sloping panel 24 which is adapted to abut the sloping rear wall [4, an upper portion of the panel 24 being struck-out as at 26 and angulated to provide a resilient, channel-shaped keeper member 28 which is adapted to be inserted and frictionally sustained in the recess [6. The keeper member 28 is formed integrally with an upturned portion 30 which projects above the cradle I8 and functions in the nature of a handle for inserting and removing the keeper-member from the recess.

A pair of rearwardly directed, horizontal extensions 32 are formed integrally with the panel 23 at the opposite sides of the struck-out portion 26, and a pair of upturned keeper elements 3d are provided at the free, rear ends of the respective extensions so as to sustain the receivertransmitter 20 on the extensions when it is removed from the cradle [8.

Finally, a pair of substantially triangular gussets 36 may be secured by welding, or the like, to the rear surface of the panel 24 and the underside surfaces of the extension 32 so as to substantially reinforce the latter.

It is believed that the advantages and use of the invention will be clearly understood from the foregoing disclosure and accordingly, further description thereof at this point is deemed unnecessary.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. A receiver transmitter holding attachment for the housing of a telephone instrument having a sloping rear wall provided with a horizontally elongated recess open at the back thereof, said holding attachment comprising a sloping panel adapted to abut the sloping rear wall of an instrument housing, an upper portion of said panel being struck-out and angulated to provide a resilient channel-shaped keeper member which is substantially narrower than the panel and is adapted to be frictionally sustained in the recess of the stated housing, a pair of horizontal extensions provided at the upper edge of said panel at the opposite sides of the struckout portion thereof, and a pair of upturned keeper elements provided at the free ends of the respective extensions.

2. The device as defined in claim 1 together with a pair of substantially triangular gussets secured to the underside of the respective extensions and to said panel at the opposite sides of the struck-out portion thereof.

FRANCIS ORMS. No references cited. 

